PENNSYLVANIA, October 21 - PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1060

PRINTER'S NO. 1161

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

No.

164

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY ROBINSON, BARTOLOTTA, LANGERHOLC, BROOKS,

TOMLINSON, SCAVELLO, GEBHARD, SANTARSIERO, MASTRIANO, ARGALL,

KANE, FONTANA, YUDICHAK, GORDNER, HUTCHINSON, L. WILLIAMS,

DUSH, COMITTA, MARTIN, COSTA, J. WARD, MENSCH, PHILLIPS-HILL,

CAPPELLETTI, STEFANO, VOGEL, PITTMAN, MUTH, AUMENT, SCHWANK,

BROWNE AND STREET, SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

AS AMENDED, OCTOBER 18, 2021

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Urging the Secretary of the Navy to designate the City of

Philadelphia and both banks of the Delaware River as the site

of the main celebration of the 250th birthdays of the United

States Navy and the United States Marine Corps in October and

November 2025.

WHEREAS, The United States Navy was founded in Pennsylvania

on October 13, 1775, when the Second Continental Congress at

Independence Hall in Philadelphia authorized its first ships;

and

WHEREAS, Later that year in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,

the Continental Navy commissioned its first ship and granted its

first commission to John Barry, the "Father of the American

Navy"; and

WHEREAS, The Second Continental Congress in Pennsylvania

commissioned Lieutenant John Paul Jones who, on the Delaware

River, was the first to raise an American national flag, the

Grand Union Flag, on a naval vessel; and

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